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TRIBUNE
Full Associated Pres
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Thirty-fifth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1940.
No. 56.
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SfMNtLE EMU
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Washington. D. C. May 27
So anxious was he to prevent a
vote on the Logan-Walters bill,
permitting court appeals from
scores of federal agencies, that
Democratic Leader Senator
Barkley opened the gate for the
1 aFollette measure to prohibit
employment of labor spies, then
realized that the bill materially
affects, adversely, plans for na
tional, defense. When Barkley
woke up it was too late to cor
rect the mistake in strategy.
This LaFollette measure is
the result of 120 days of hear
ings since August, 1936. It has
cost $200,000, produced 51 vol
umes and 19,000 pages of print
ed testimony. Witnesses exam
ined, 883. It is popularly known
as the Civil Liberties committee
and the bill resulting from the
probe is strongly supported by
CIO. Chiefly the committee ex
posed the use of detectives in
industrial plants: the arsenals
maintained in some factories.
REASON why the LaFollette meas
uure came at an embarrassing
time la that It prohibit an employer
from Inquiring whether a worker be
lone to a political party; forbids an
employer to have lethal weapons on
hand to defend hla property; makes
unlawful hiring anyone to watch his
men to learn what they are doing or
e&ylng.
Normayr those prohibitions mJght
have been met wllh public approval,
but the national defense puts anoth
er face on the matter. Should the bUl
become a law a worker cannot be
asked If he la a communist; no
weapons can be available for guard
lng property; ' no one permitted to
keep an eye on suspects who may
plan sabotage. In brief, the bill La
Follette sponsors Is right up the alley
of members of the "fifth column"
permits them to go Into plants as
workmen and perpetrate such dam
age as they can without an under
cover agent being around to Interfere
ei prevent the sabotage.
Iff view of the Trojan Horae tactics
the bill takes a new significance.
There are In Oregon and Washing
ton 4000 communists, according to
the testimony of Earl Browder, No.
One Stslln agent In the United
States. In addition there are several
thousand "fellow travelers". (See
printed hearings of the Dies commit
tee). There are, also, several organi
sations In the Pacific northwest
(Continued on Page Pour.)
KLAMATH BOY KILLED
PLAYING IN STREET
Klamath Falls, May 27.
Gordon Smith, 9, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Mark Smith, was fa
tally injured Saturday night
when struck by a car while
playing along a city street. He
died in a hospital early Sunday
morning.
Investigating officers said the
boy apparently jumped into the
street from a curb in front of
a car driven by Mrs. Bessie
Hartley of Merrill.
To Launch Battleship
Philadelphia, May 27. IIP)
The 35,000-ton battleship Wash
ington, first battleship addition
to America's sea defenses since
1821, will be launched Satur
day amid the strictest precau
tions since 1917.
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Ernie Piluso not being par
ticularly impressed with a
friend's illustrated lecture on
how to properly execute an
early morning sprint.
ed by a patriotic poppy sales-.
woman where her poppy was, J
replying seriously that she
guessed he was working.
i
Maria Keler demonstrating ;
her agility by climbing L'P the;
pole at fire headquarters, a feat 1
no other woman in her party
could do.
Tommy Hawkins issuing an
invitation for a dutch lunch
with all the trimmings. It being '
passed up by a friend with the
deepest regret.
NAZI ONSLAUGHT
BACKS ALLIES UP
WEST OTSCHELDT
Channel Mastery and Fate
of 'Lost Million' Are at
Stake in Terrific Conflict
London, May 27. (IP)
Well Informed sources in
London tonight described the
military situation in northern
France as of increasing grav
ity. By the Associated Press
German and allied armies
thrashed like giant pythons,
each seeking a strangle-hold, in
the bloody battle of Flanders to
day. Mastery of the English chan
nel and the fate of the so-called
Most million" allied troops were
at stake.
Germany hurled great masses
cf men and materials into a re
newed onslaught in the Valen
ciennes sector, forcing hard
pressed French troops to with
draw to new positions west of
the Scheldt river.
The French high command,
admitting the setback, said how
ever the situation was "not un
favorable." Furious Attack
Seeking a quick knockout, the
Germans threw wave after wave
of tank-led infantry into a furi
ous Rttack in the Lens-Ypres
sector in the north.
The Nazi high command said
a deep breach had been cut in
the allied lines and that counter
attacking French colonial troops
hud been thrown back with
"bloody losses" northeast of
Lens.
German warplants and swift
striking torpedo boats quickened
the tempo of the Nazi drive for
control of the channel.
The waterfront at Dunkerque.
north of Calais, was reported in
flames after German bombing
attacks.
Both sides appeared to be
flinging all available troops,
tmks, planes and guns into the
great battle in flanders.
Two Major Phases
In one major phase of the
struggle, Generalissimo Maxime
Weygand's forces sought to
break through the German sali
ent to the channel at its 18-mile
wide bottleneck in the Bapaume
Peronne area.
If successful, the vital line of
communications feeding the
German columns along the
channel would be broken; the
Nazi spearhead columns isolated.
In the second phase, Hitler's
armored troops were flailing
hard to pinch off the allied
salient in the north between
Lille, France, and Courtrai,
Belgium, at a similarly narrow
bottleneck.
If successful, the Germans in
turn would isolate allied forces
which are seeking to isolate the
Nazis.
Near Ypret
Amid this complicated action,
terrific German attacks which
were described by the French as
launched "without regard to
(Continued on Page Eight.)
IB
Washington, May 27. IIP)
President Roosevelt nominated
Jay Pierrepone Moffat today to
be minister to Canada.
Moffat, a native of New
Hampshire, now is chief of the
state department's European
division.
Moffat will succeed James H
R. Cromwell, who resigned af
ter accepting the nomination of
New Jersey democrats to run
for the senate.
G-Aen Prepare to
Trail 5th Columns
Washington. May 27 (U.R)
The federal bureau of investi
gation is getting ready for an
intensive campaign designed to
turn up fifth column elements
in the nation.
Director J. Edgar Hoover of
the F B.I. has cancelled the an
nual leaves of all G-men.
Find Body of Missing Table Rock Man in Rogue
war Bulletins
Paris. May 27 P Pre
mier Hubert Plerlot. of Bel
gium, announced tonight af
ter meeting with his refugee
cabinet that his government
has decided to continue in
the war on the side of the
allies. The premier said Bel
gium would triumph sooner
or later and remain faithful
to her cause.
Rome, May 27 ilP) The
British embassy denied today
story circulated by Ex
change Telegraph. British
news agency, in London that
British nationals had been
advised to leave Italy. ,
Ottawa. Onl., May 27. lPl
Prime Minister MacKeniie
King announced in commons
tonight that Canada's military
and air forces will be expand
ed immediately to meet the
critical situation in the Euro
pean war.
SATKO ARK CALLS
AT NANAIMO. B. C.
J
Nanaimo, B. C, May 27,
(CP Safely over watery and
legal hurdles, the Paul Satko
family was "getting along all
right" today on its trip to
Alaska in the 40-foot, home-
mida 'Ar1r nt .Tunafiii '
The Ark put in here yestcr-J
rinv. rmarlne the entire familv
Paul, an unemployed Virginia
welder, his wife and their seven
children, six of whom were ex
pressly prohibited by a Seattle
court order from boarding the
boat.
British Columbia officials
evinced no Intention of inter
fering with the family's north
ward progress toward a home
stead and a new life on Cook
inlet, Alaska.
Manufacturer Die
Portland, May 27. (IP)
Charles L. Dunham, SO, presi
dent of the Reliance manufac
turing company, died yesterday.
He was a noted Portland manu
facturer of furnaces.
F.D.R. Appeals for Unity;
Pledges Military Security
Washington, May 27. UP)
In a solemn appeal for national
unity, President Roosevelt
coupled a pledge of military
security last night with a warn
ing against Trojan horse treach
cry and the "undiluted poison"
of foreign-sponsored dissension.
Calling for an end to fear, Il
lusion and calamity-howling, the
chief executive said in his four
teenth radio "fireside chat" that
American defense forces would
be built up ' "to whatever
heights the future may re
quire." Funds Not Wasted
He denied charges of critics
that money spent for aryiy and
navy in the last few years had
"gone down the rat-hole." In
stead, he said:
"This money has been used
to make our army and navy to
day the largest, tHe best
equipped, and the best trained
peacetime military establish
ment in the history of this
country."
"These dividing forces are
undiluted poison. They must
not be allowed to spread in the
new world as they nave in the
old."
The president said that 'the
past two weeks have meant the
shattering of many illusions"
for persons who had "closed
their eyes" to events abroad or
"who would not admit the pos
sibility of the approaching
storm."
"They have lost the illusion,"
he declared, "that we are re
mote and Isolated and. there
fore, secure against the dangers
from which no other land is
free."
Not Weapons Alone
I After declaring that nothing
: In the present emergency Justi
fied breakdown or cancellation
ot "any of the great social
REDS, BUNDSTERSi
BE
Senate Favors Prohibition of
Alien Elements in Inter
state Commerce Concerns
Washington. May 27 (Pi
The senate passed today leg
islation which would restrict
sharply the number of jobs
held by communists, "Nasi
bund" members of aliens in
this country and would out
law "oppressive labor prac
tices" in interstate commerce.
Washington, May 27 IIP)
The house adopted a resolution
today to give quick effect to
President Roosevelt's transfer oi
the immigration service to the
justice department as a means
of gaining "more effective con
trol over aliens."
The action came on a voice
vote. If approved also by the
senate, the president could make
tiie transfer effective in ten
days.
Mr. Roosevelt proposed the
cnange last Wednesday and told
congress that "in view of the
ency ot ne req
request he
nuPea aulcK amrmauv
e action
could be taken.'
In the course of house denate,
Representative Tabrr (R-NYl
described Secretary Perkins as
"a notorious incompetent."
He gave this reason why
many of us" would vote for the
resolution to take the immigra
tion service out of the labor de
partment without delay:
"The president has not the
patriotism or the courage to re
move the secretary of labor, a
notorious incompetent and one
who for the last seven years has
steadily refused to enforce
the immigration law and con
tinuously admitted and kept
here those who were not en
titled to stay."
gains" under the new deal, Mr.
Roosevelt asserted that "to
day's threat to our national se
curity is not a matter of mili
tary weapons' alone."
"We must deal vigorously,"
he said, with "spies, saboteurs
and traitors." The new tech
nique of weakening a nation
at its roots, he continued, is
discord aimed at creating "con
fusion of counsel, public inde
cision, political paralysis and,
eventually, a state of panic."
"Campaigns of group hatred
or class struggle have never
made such headway among us,
and are not making headway
now," he said, "but new forces
are being unleashed, deliber
ately planned propagandas to
divide and weaken us in the
face of danger as other nations
have been weakened before."
NAZIS UNEXCITED
BY FIRESIDE TALK
Berlin, May 27. OI Presi
dent Roosevelt's fireside talk
last night was regarded by au
thorized German sources today
as having touched on the Uni
ted States' own business.
Germany has never been a
threat In the western hemis
phere, these sources said, and
if America feels she needs bet
ter defenses It cannot be be
cause of any German designs.
They declared that Cermany
respected the slogan "America
for Americans", but also ex-
I pected America to respect the
' slogan "Europe for the Europeans."
TELEPHONE TOLLSiUNION NOT I IMF
JACKSONVILLE
AT HEARING
Company Auditor Claims Ex
change in Pioneer Town
Shows Heavy Annual Loss
Jacksonville. May 27. (SpU
A mass of statistical evidence
was presented by the Pacific
Telephone & Telegraph company
at the Jacksonville rate hearing
before the Oregon public utili
ties commission in the Commer
cial club today. The hearing con
tinued this afternoon, Jackson-
ville to present its side of the;
question at the completion of the
company s case.
Although a complete adjust
ment of rates is sought by the
company, the bone of contention
is the proposed five cent toll
charge on calls between Jackson
ville and Medford and between
Medford and Jacksonville, there
having been no charge pre
viously for this service excepting
from public slot telephones. In
addition to the toll charge, the
company proposes to make ad
justments in the Jacksonville
rates involving reductions to 14
business customers, 7 residence
customers and 74 farm customers
and increases o-8fl residence
customers, evidence presented
by the company showed.
Operate at Loss
C. S. Mason, company auditor
from Seattle, testified that on its
Jacksonville exchange the com
pany suffered a net operating
loss of $2,848.11 in 1938 and
$2,419.76 in 1939. He estimated
that under the proposed new
rates and with the new dial sys
tem functioning, and assuming
no customers would be lost, the
net operating loss in 1941 would
be $986.
In an opening statement, Omar
Spencer, company attorney from
Portland, said the change in
rates was sought to bring Jack
sonville schedules in conformity
with those of comparable Oregon
cities and that the change pro
posal had been deferred until
the dial system was to be put
Into operation. Company wit
nesses made similar statements.
The company witnesses included
at the morning session Fred D.
Scholl of Portland, general com
mercial manager for Oregon, Mr.
Mason and R. J. Collins of Port
land, general commercial en
gineer for the Oregon area.
The city of Jacksonville was
represented by Herbert K. Ban
na and the farm users of the
Jacksonville area were repre
sented by Porter J. Neff.
Bean Presiding
Ormond R. Bean, public utili
ties commissioner, presided with
T. O. Russell, the commission's
chief engineer, serving as exam,
iner. Also present were J. T.
Naylor, the commission's tele
phone engineer, and Alvin W,
Kurtz, commission attorney.
A hearing on the same subject
Is to be held at 10 a. m. tomor
row in the Jackson county court
house, Medford
IS LOST IN STORM
Seattle, May 27. fTWSand
Point naval air base authorities
today revealed the lost of a 10
ton, twin motored bombing
plane during night maneuvers
off the Washington coast last
veek. Her crew of six was res
cued. Lieut. (J.G.) Charles E. Brun
ton, pilot, was commended by
Lieut. Comdr. Harry Carlson,
commanding squadron VP 43.
for making a skilful forced
landing at night, during heavy
weather, without loss or Injury
of a man.
Winds of It to 25 knots pro
duced heavy seas, and the U
S. S. Williamson took the bomb
er In tow. After battling head
winds for 36 hours, the Wil-
liamson was forced to cut the
1 tow line.
FOR DAMAGE DONE
DURING SIT-DOWN
Supreme Court Sustains
Contention Unions Not
Subject Ordinarily to Law
Washington, May 27 MP)
The supreme court ruled today
that a labor union was not liable
under the federal anti-trust laws
for damages resulting from a sit
down strike. .
The 8 to 3 decision was deliv
ered by Justice Stone.
Chief Justice Hughes wrote a
dissenting opinion in which Jus-
tires McReynolds and Roberta
joined.
Stone asserted the activities of
the labor union involved In the
litigation did not sufficiently
interfere with interstate com
merce to constitute a violation
ot the Sherman Act.
The far-reaching opinion sus
tained the contentions of labor
organizations for many years
that they were not subject ordi
narily to the law.
Guide To Justice Dept.
This decision was expected to
guide the justice department in
its present anti-trust campaign
against labor organizations and
business concerns charged with
conspiracy to restrain interstate
commerce.
Specifically Involved was a
suit by the Apex Hosiery coin
ages sustained during a seven-
pany of Philadelphia for dam
week sit-down strike in 1937 by
a local unit of the American
federation of full fashioned ho
siery workers.
OUTLINES PLANS
Rome. May 27 (U.R) A fascist
newspaper in Rome features to
day a full-page war map show
ing how Italy will attack the
allies as soon as Benito Musso
lini gives the order to enter the
war on the side of Germany.
Simultaneously, another Ital
ian newspaper declared that if
Italy enters the war the decisive
battle will be fought in Egypt.
The fascist military expert,
Antonio Trizzino, said that when
II Duce gives the word, the
Italian air armada will unleash
its full force against the allied
fleet which is based on the
Egypt-Palestine-Cyprus triangle.
FUNDS URGED FOR
Washington, May 27. IIP)
Members of Oregon's congres
sional delegation, headed by
Senator McNary, urged the
army engineer board today to
uphold a division engineer's
favorable findings on a $400,000
Improvement project at Port
prford. Ore.
I The project would mean rapid
i development of the Port Or
I ford area, the board was told
by McNary, Senator Holman
and Representative Mott, who
also supported a flood control
project on the Yaqulna river
in Oregon.
The board previously report
ed it was unconvinced of the
Port Orford project's Justifica
tion. OPTICAL FIRM FINED
IN ANTI TRUST CASE
New York, May 27 U.R) One
of the largest optical firms in
the world, Bausch and Lomb,
and three of Its officers were to
day fined a total of $40,000 on
charges of violating federal anti
trust and tariff laws.
The violation came through a
secret trade agreement with
German firm to control the dis
tribution of vital military and
uvil equipment.
I . Detained
V '
Captain Frans Von Rlntelen
(above), noted for German espi
onage activities In the World
war and in recent years a resi
dent of England, waa detained
in London in England's drive
on fltth column activities. Von
Rintelen operated in the United
States during the World war.
FEAR TRIO IN COUPE
PLUNGED INTO RIVER
AS RESULT OP CRASH
OROFINO. Idaho. May 27.
UP) Sheriffs" officers from three
counties, assisted by Idaho traf
fic patrolmen, were dragging the
swift Clearwater river below
here today for a light coupe in
which it was believed three per
sons from Clarkston, Wash., lost
their lives last night.
The coupe caromed off the
back of another machine and
hurtled into the deep, fast water.
Today E. J. Bath, 37-year-old
Clarkston school teacher, and
Mrs. T. S. Belt, 85, and Mrs. Vera
Rognstad, 45, Clarkston widows;
were reported missing from their
homes after having gone to the
Selway national forest for a pic
nic. They were to have returned
last night.
CE
ENDS THIS WEEK
No figures on Medford's pop
ulation will be given out until
all data obtained by enumera
tors has been tabulated In the
district census bureau at Eu
gene, Moore Hamilton, of Med
ford, assistant state supervisor.
announced today, Hamilton
stated, however, that "Medford
has nothing to fear" from com
parison ot population figures
with those ot 1930.
Mr. Hamilton, who arrived
Sunday to supervise cleanup of
the count here, said the work
would be finished this week.
He urged those in Medford not
yet contacted by the enumera
tors to leave their names at the
Chamber of Commerce.
BRITISH DENY PLAN TO
SINK AMERICAN LINER
London, May 27 U.R) A Ger
man charge that the British are
planning to sink the American
refugee boat. President Roose
velt. Is branded as a lie in
authoritative London quarters
today.
Previously, the German!
charged that the British were
planning to sink the American
boat and then claim that it was
the work of Nazi U-boats.
Gold Beach, Ore., May 27.
IIP) MacLeay lodge, headquar
ters for the Cocs-Curry Fire Pa
trol association, burned to the
ground today. The landmark,
at Wcdderburn across Rogue
river from Gold Beach, form
erly was the home ot Roderick
L. MacLeay.
CENTRAL PL BOYS
MAKE GRUESOME
FIND INJTREAM
Remains of Lewis Robert
Loesch Located Near Gold
Ray Dam; No Inquest
The body of Lewis Robert
Loesch, 67, missing from hit
home at Table Rock since the
evening of March 20, was dls
covered in a shallow and nar
row channel of Rogue river
about a mile and a quarter up
stream from Gold Hay dam yes
terday afternoon.
The discovery was made by
three Central Point boys, Delbert
Lee, 16; William Mills, 19, and
Arthur Miller, 21.
County Coroner Frank Perl,
after talking with District At
torney Frank J. Newman, said
today that no inquest would be
held. The coroner listed the
death as a suicide. Due to the
badly decomposed condition of
the body, caused by over two
months submersion in the river,
an autopsy could not be held.
the coroner said.
Positive Identification
Positive identification ot the.
corpse was made by the teeth,
clothing and the fact that two
fingers were missing off . the
right hand. Also, weight and
height tallied with the informa
tion authorities received when
Loesch first disappeared, the
coroner said.
The three boys found the body
while they were towing a canoe
behind a rowboat in the direc
tion of Gold Ray dam. The boys
had lost the canoe Friday about
two miles above the dam and
had returned and found it Sat
urday and tied it up, state police
explained. Sunday, the three
youths obtained rowboat, row
ed to the canoe's location and
started to tow it to Gold Ray
dam so they could get it out of
the river, police said.
A mistake led the trio to dis
cover Loesch's body. About a
(Continued un rage Fits.)
Nazi Parachutists
Landed at Narvik
Berlin, May 27. CUB The
German high command said to
day additional German alpine
troops have landed by parachute
to bolster the nazl garrison at
the Norwegian port of Narvik.
The Germans regard Narvik
as extremely important because
meteorologists there are furnish
ing important weather data to
the high command. In addition,
German forces operating in the
area have prevented the allies
from gaining control of an im
porta nt route to the northern
Swedish frontier.
BASEBALL
National
First game: R. H. Z.
Cincinnati 2 6 0
Pittsburgh 14 0
L. Moore, Beggi and Lom
bardl; M. Brown and Davis.
Second game:
Cincinnati
R. K.
. 7 11
. 3
E.
0
1
Pittsburgh
Turner and Hershberger; Ba li
en, Heintzelman and Berrea.
R. H. Z.
Philadelphia 0 4 1
Brooklyn 6 12 1
Smoll, Hoerst and Atwooa,
Warren; Wyatt and Mancuso.
" R. H. - X.
New York , .. 14 1
Boston 7 13 0
Lohrman. Dean, Lynn and
Dannlng, Odea; Posedel and
Lopez.
R. H. Z.
St. Louli - 17
Chicago 7 10 0
Bowman. J. Russell, White
and Padgett; Pasaeau and Todd.
Asaertcan
R. H. X.
Washington .
New York
0 4 0
B 4
Chase. Jacobs
and rarreUi
Chandler and Dick (jr.